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From: "Rosemary in Aberdeen,Scotland" <>
Subject: Re: Keeper of the Harbour Lights in Aberdeen
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 17:32:59 +0100


Dear Stuart,
If you don't get a reply to your query you could try the City Archives or the
Aberdeen Maritime Museum.
My own opinion is that the Harbour Lights would need more manual
attention in those days than they do now and that it would be an official
job.
The Public Library has all the papers which can be viewed on film.
All these places have their web sites.
As my particular interest is Fittie,a.k.a Footdee and the Harbour area
I would be willing to look in censuses etc.if you have not already done so.

>From Rosemary in sunny but blustery Aberdeen and pay no attention to
the date of sending. Mine is never at the right time and definitely not
today, the dangerous 9th.

> On member of the family, John Bruce was born in Glasgow in 1838 and
> married Ann Brechin McLeod in Ayr in 1862. At this time and on the birth
> of most of his children, he is described as a merchant seaman. His
> children from 1867 were born in Aberdeen. On later certificates, he is
> described as 'Keeper of the Harbour Lights' and on his death certificate
> on 24th February 1916 in Aberdeen is described as a retired lighthouse
> keeper. There is no record of him in the Commissioners of Northern
> Lighthouses records in the SRO.
>
> Does anyone know what the Keeper of the Harbour Lights was. Perhaps he
> only lit the lights around the harbour and the title was given to him by
> his family! Are there records of the harbour authorities in Aberdeen? Is
> there a local paper that might have an obituary?
>
> Any ideas gratefully received.
>
> Stuart
> in sunny Bedfordshire
>
>


Rosemary in Aberdeen

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